Leviticus 3:6-9

6 "If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it ¹without blemish.

7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD,

8 lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.

9 Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he shall offer as a food offering to the LORD its fat; he shall remove the whole ²fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails

Leviticus 3:6-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 3

This chapter contains the law of the peace offerings, and gives an account what they consisted of, and of the various rites and ceremonies used at them, as of the bullock and the rites appertaining to that, Le 3:1-5 and of the lamb, and of the rites peculiar to it, Le 3:6-11 and of the goat, and of the rites belonging to it, Le 3:12-16 and the chapter is concluded with a law forbidding the eating of fat and blood throughout their dwellings for ever, Le 3:17.

Cross References

• 1. [See ver. 1 above]
• 2. Leviticus 9:19; Exodus 29:22